Holyhead Town Football Club is a Welsh

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team based in

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. The team play in the .

History

The team was formed in 1925 and competed in the Welsh National League, North Wales Football Combination and

North Wales Coast League The North Wales Coast League was a North Walian association football league that existed from 1893 until 1921. After the Welsh Senior League, which started in 1890, it was the second association football league formed in North Wales. There was ...

before beginning a long stay in the

Welsh League North The Welsh League North was a football league in north and central Wales which formed the first level of the Welsh football league system between 1935 and 1984. It is considered North Wales's most successful league, running uninterrupted apart f ...

in 1935–36. They were four times league champions in 1949–50, 1957–58, 1963–64 and 1969–70. They dropped into the

Anglesey League The Anglesey Football League was a football league in Anglesey, Wales, and was equivalent to the sixth level of the Welsh football league system in North Wales. The champions were promoted to the Gwynedd League. The league also ran five cup comp ...

from the 1975–76 season. The club went out of existence between 1998 and 2009, and again from 2012–13 to 2015–16. They reformed in 2016, winning the Anglesey League in their first season back, the

Gwynedd League The Gwynedd Football League was a association football, football league at the fifth level of the Welsh football league system in north-west Wales. The league folded in 2020 due to a reorganisation of the Welsh football league pyramid, with many ...

title the following season and promotion to the

Welsh Alliance League The Welsh Alliance Football League (formerly the ''Lock Stock Welsh Alliance Football League'', for sponsorship reasons) was a football league formed in 1984, and discontinued in 2020 following the reorganisation of the Welsh football pyramid for ...

. For the 2018–19 season re-introduced a reserve side in the Anglesey League. The club resigned from the Welsh Alliance League in December 2019 but did not fold with its reserve side, in the Anglesey League becoming its first team. They then joined the newly formed

North Wales Coast West Football League The North Wales Coast West Football League is a football league in Wales, at tiers 4 and 5 of the Welsh football league system in North Wales, founded in 2020. The league is under the control of the North Wales Coast Football Association. The lea ...

Division One for the 2020–21 season, a season which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the club starting the 2021–22 season when amateur football returned to Wales in the summer of 2021. In the

Welsh Cup The FAW Welsh Cup (), currently known as the JD Welsh Cup for sponsorship reasons, is a knock-out football competition contested annually by teams in the Welsh football league system. It is considered the most prestigious of the cup competitions ...

the club has twice reached the quarter-final stages in 1960–61 and 1961–62.

Honours

League

**Champions (4): 1949–50, 1957–58, 1963–64, 1969–70 *

**Champions (2): 1992–93, 2017–18 *

**Champions (6): 1967–68 (reserves), 1969–70 (reserves), 1979–80, 1985–86, 1987–88, 2016–17 **Runners-up: 1988–89 (reserves)

Cups

*NWCFA Challenge Cup – Winners (2): 1955–56; 1966–67 * North Wales Coast FA Junior Challenge Cup – Winners (1): 1987-88 *Cwpan Gwynedd – Winners: 2017–18 *Lucas Oil Cup - Winners: 2016–17 *Megan Cup – Winners: 2016–17

External links

Club official Facebook

References

Anglesey League clubs Gwynedd League clubs North Wales Coast Football League clubs 1925 establishments in Wales Sport in Anglesey Football clubs in Wales Welsh Alliance League clubs Holyhead Association football clubs established in 1925 Welsh League North clubs North Wales Coast League clubs {{wales-footyclub-stub